I'm an old smoker and all I use are MG products, and I grow some dam fine smoke. It's only hot for a short time...not 6 months...that's hype. At least it won't stay hot for weed that long. There are NO flushing issues at the end of flowering...you will have to feed and transplant those babies eventually. As you near the end of the flower phase, you simply back off the nutes your feeding them and begin flushing. MG does not kill plants when flushing unless your flushing with full outdoor strength MG all purpose! I DO cut the MG African violet soil I buy with half a bag of perlite per bag of Soil, and add two handfuls of vermiculite, mix it well and that's all I use for everything. The AF MG soil is pretty correct on Ph for weed, so it requires fewer adjustments. If you want to grow good weed, you should pay more attention to Ph than nearly anything else. Hard to diagnose anything without knowing the Ph. Good Luck and keep asking questions...it's how I learned!